What Research Says to the Teacher: Evaluation and Reporting of Student Achievement.

National Education Association, Washington, DC.

The four parts of this report are: (1) the purposes of evaluation and reporting; (2) relationship to educational philosophy and methods of teaching, including historical development, present reporting practice and criticisms of these practices, and alternatives to conventional grading; (3) the best way to report student achievement; and (4) evaluation to improve instruction, with comments on standardized tests, criterion-referenced tests, self-evaluation, and promising trends in evaluation. (RC)